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Air Force personnel assist a woman in filling out forms during evacuation processing. The evacuation is the result of the June 10 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which deposited more than four inches of volcanic ash on the Philippine Islands. More than 20,000 evacuees have been removed from the area as a part of the U.S. military's Operation Fiery Vigil

A US Navy (USN) (blue shirt) chock crew member shields himself to avoid rotor wash, as a SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the "Warlords" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 51 (HSL-51), takes off from the flight pad aboard the USN Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis), USS COWPENS (CG 63) during a joint Russian Federation Navy-US Navy humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise conducted in the waters near the US Territory of Guam

Onboard the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis) USS COWPENS (CG 63), a giant "battle flag" flies from the yardarm while the ship is underway in the Pacific Ocean, during the opening phases of a joint US-Russian Naval Exercise. A Russian Federation Navy vessel made the first visit to the US Territory of Guam in order to participate in a joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise

View along the Guam Historical Trail with a sign describing the wreckage of a World War II F-4U Corsair fighter aircraft that crashed on approach to the Orote Airfield main runway in 1944

An evacuated Kurdish boy stands next to a sign pointing the way to the "Mayor's" office at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during OPERATION PACIFIC HAVEN. Pacific Haven airlifted of over 2,100 Kurds from northern Iraq. The evacuees will be housed temporarily at Andersen AFB, Guam, while they go through the immigration process for residence into the United States

Storekeeper SEAMAN John P. Lerma (right) and Aviation Maintenance Administrationman Craig S. Mocello stand the low-visibility watch aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) as it transits the Suez Canal en route to the Persian Gulf. Guam deployed to the Gulf as part of an increased military presence in response to a U.S. Central Command request for additional forces in support of operation Southern Watch

A fuel barge is anchored alongside the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19) during the Blue Ridge's port visit

With 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles, US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from 3rd Platoon (PLT), Fox Company, 2nd Battalion (BN), 4th Marine Regiment (MAR RGT), Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA), conduct urban terrain combat training. The training is taking place in a former US Air Force (USAF) housing area near Anderson Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during joint Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Kenneth Reeves from the 36th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), Fire Protection Flight stationed at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam works with members of the Guam Fire Department to extinguish a fuel tank fire on the Cabras Island tank farm

US Marine Corps (USMC) Captain (CPT) Christopher Wills (second from left), Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion (BN), 4th Marine Regiment (MAR RGT), Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA), briefs his Marines prior to a training mission. The Marines are conducting urban terrain combat training in a former US Air Force (USAF) housing area near Anderson Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during joint Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Marines from Weapons Platoon, Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, were pulled from mess duty and liberty to help in a Marine Joint Task Force cleaning operation during a brush fire in the Apra Heights area

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Billy Weinstein from the 36th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), Fire Protection Flight stationed at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, gets help putting on his Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) from another firefighter during a fuel tank fire at the Cabras Island tank farm